TUFFC December 2005 Table of Contents

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS,
AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL SOCIETY

December 2005

VOLUME 52

NUMBER 12

ITUCER

(ISSN 0885-3010)

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165 KB	Information For Contributors. . .2153

334 KB	A Multimedia Example . . .2158 Multimedia-zipped

28 KB	Call for Papers: Special Issue on Modeling, Optimization and Design of Acoustic Devices . . .2159

28 KB	Call for Papers: Special Issue on High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging in Industrial, Material, and Biomaterial Applications . . .2160

172 KB	Call for Papers: 15th IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics . . .2161

Special Issue on Accoustic Wave Sensors and Applications


SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS

57 KB	Introduction to the Special Issue on Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 2162

1.4 MB	Linear and Nonlinear Equivalent Circuit Modeling of CMUTs A. Lohfink and P.-C. Eccardt. . . 2163

790 KB	CMUT Array Modeling Through Free Acoustic CMUT Modes and Analysis of the Fluid CMUT Interface Through Fourier Transform Methods A. Rønnekleiv. . . 2173

1.2 MB	Finite-Element Analysis of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers G. G. Yaralioglu, A. S. Ergun, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 2185

841 KB	A Finite Difference Model For cMUT Devices D. Certon, F. Teston, and F. Patat. . . 2199

389 KB	Optimization of the Gain-Bandwidth Product of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers S. Olcum, M. N. Senlik, and A. Atalar. . . 2211

3.3 MB	Acoustic Coupling in Capacitive Microfabricated Ultrasonic Transducers: Modeling and Experiments A. Caronti, A. Savoia, G. Caliano, and M. Pappalardo. . . 2220 Multimedia-zipped

855 KB	Design of a Front-End Integrated Circuit for 3D Acoustic Imaging Using 2D CMUT Arrays I. Çiçek, A. Bozkurt, and M. Karaman. . . 2235

1 MB	Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers: Fabrication Technology A. S. Ergun, Y. Huang, X. Zhuang, Ö. Oralkan, G. G. Yaralioglu, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 2242

1.6 MB	Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Probe for Medical Imaging G. Caliano, R. Carotenuto, E. Cianci, V. Foglietti, A. Caronti, A. Iula, and M. Pappalardo. . . 2259

687 KB	Dynamic Analysis of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers B. Bayram, G. G. Yaralioglu, M. Kupnik, A. S. Ergun, Ö. Oralkan, A. Nikoozadeh, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. . . 2270

1.8 MB	Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers Based on PZT Thin Films P. Muralt, N. Ledermann, J. Baborowski, A. Barzegar, S. Gentil, B. Belgacem, S. Petitgrand, A. Bosseboeuf, and N. Setter. . . 2276

1.2 MB	Fabrication and Characterization of Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers with Thick Composite PZT Films Z. Wang, W. Zhu, H. Zhu, J. Miao, C. Chao, C. Zhao, and O. K. Tan. . . 2289 Multimedia-zipped

346 KB	Characterization of Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers Using Light Diffraction Tomography M. Almqvist, M. Törndahl, M. Nilsson, and T. Lilliehorn. . . 2298

Regular Issue


REGULAR ISSUE LETTERS

116 KB	Effects of Nonlinear Elastic Constants on Electromechanical Coupling Factors J. Yang and S. Guo. . . 2303

85 KB	Mass Sensitivity of Antiplane (SH) Modes in an Isotropic Elastic Wedge J. Yang and S. Guo. . . 2306

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS

	*Ferroelectrics*

560 KB	The Effects of ZnO Films on Surface Acoustic Wave Properties of Modified Lead Titanate Ceramic Substrates S.-Y. Chu, T.-Y. Chen, and W. Water. . . 2308

	*Frequency Control*

282 KB	Power Dependence of Distributed Cavity Phase-Induced Frequency Biases in Atomic Fountain Frequency Standards S. R. Jefferts, J. H. Shirley, N. Ashby, E. A. Burt, and G. J. Dick. . . 2314

448 KB	Phase Noise in Capacitively Coupled Micromechanical Oscillators V. Kaajakari, J. K. Koskinen, and T. Mattila. . . 2322

	*Medical Ultrasound*
612 KB	Investigating the Significance of Multiple Scattering in Ultrasound Contrast Agent Particle Populations E. Stride and N. Saffari. . . 2332

2.2 MB	Ultrasound Attenuation Measurement in the Presence of Scatterer Variation for Reduction of Shadowing and Enhancement G. Treece, R. Prager, and A. Gee. . . 2346

	*Physical Acoustics*

1.2 MB	Influence of Material Parameters on Acoustic Wave Propagation Modes in ZnO/Si Bi-Layered Structures H.-D. Gao, S.-Y. Zhang, X. Qi, K. Wasa, and H.-D. Wu. . . 2361

	*Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications*
1.4 MB	The Excitation and Detection of Lamb Waves with Planar Coil Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers P. Wilcox, M. J. S. Lowe, and P. Cawley. . . 2370

2.5 MB	Air-Coupled Through-Transmission Fan-Beam Tomography Using Divergent Capacitive Ultrasonic Transducers W. M. D. Wright, P. Ingleby, and I. J. O’Sullivan. . . 2384

	*Surface Acoustic Waves*
624 KB	Numerical Study of the Spectral 3-D Green’s Function Singularities for Piezoelectric SAW Components M. Durán, J.-C. Nédélec, and S. Ossandón. . . 2395

673 KB	Application of Taguchi Robust Design Method to SAW Mass Sensing Device D. H. Wu and H. H. Chen. . . 2403

	*Transducers and Transducers Materials*

236 KB	Investigation of Electrostrictive Polymers for Energy Harvesting Y. Liu, K. L. Ren, H. F. Hofmann, and Q. Zhang. . . 2411


REGULAR ISSUE CORRESPONDENCE

423 KB	Transducer for Harmonic Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging H. J. Vos, M. E. Frijlink, E. Droog. D. E. Goertz, G. Blacquière, A. Gisolf, N. de Jong, and A. F. W. van der Steen. . . 2418

429 KB	Index . . . 2423